SSD with dram. help.

[Mahbub]

i am new to m.2 nvme ssds. i am looking to buy a nvme m.2 and someone sad i should buy one which has dram. so how do i look for which ssd has dram? i mean which word in the specsheet should i look for? i dont wanna end up buying a dram less nvme ssd. please help.

[Jurrunio]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1B27_j9NDPU3cNlj2HKcrfpJKHkOf-Oi1DbuuQva2gT4/edit#gid=0

[Electronics Wizardy]

budget? 

 

capacity?

 

ALso don't look at dram alone, there are many good drives without dram, and bad drives with, look at the total package. 

 

 

[Mahbub]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

budget? 

 

capacity?

 

ALso don't look at dram alone, there are many good drives without dram, and bad drives with, look at the total package. 

 

 

https://mdcomputers.in/adata-xpg-gammix-s5-256gb-m-2-agammixs5-256gt-c.html?sort=p.price&order=ASC

 

https://mdcomputers.in/adata-xpg-gammix-s5-256gb-m-2-agammixs5-256gt-c.html?sort=p.price&order=ASC

 

https://mdcomputers.in/adata-xpg-gammix-s11-pro-256gb-m-2-agammixs11p-256gt-c.html?sort=p.price&order=ASC

 

budget is on the low side, 55$

 

i linked three.. can u check n tell me if these have dram or not..

[Mahbub]

3 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1B27_j9NDPU3cNlj2HKcrfpJKHkOf-Oi1DbuuQva2gT4/edit#gid=0

thank you

[Jurrunio]

2 minutes ago, Mahbub said:

https://mdcomputers.in/adata-xpg-gammix-s5-256gb-m-2-agammixs5-256gt-c.html?sort=p.price&order=ASC

 

https://mdcomputers.in/adata-xpg-gammix-s5-256gb-m-2-agammixs5-256gt-c.html?sort=p.price&order=ASC

 

https://mdcomputers.in/adata-xpg-gammix-s11-pro-256gb-m-2-agammixs11p-256gt-c.html?sort=p.price&order=ASC

 

budget is on the low side, 55$

 

i linked three.. can u check n tell me if these have dram or not..

Adata's fallure rate is higher than average, and you shouldnt buy NVMe at low budgets. They just arent faster in the real world than the better bunch of SATA SSDs

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, Mahbub said:

https://mdcomputers.in/adata-xpg-gammix-s5-256gb-m-2-agammixs5-256gt-c.html?sort=p.price&order=ASC

 

https://mdcomputers.in/adata-xpg-gammix-s5-256gb-m-2-agammixs5-256gt-c.html?sort=p.price&order=ASC

 

https://mdcomputers.in/adata-xpg-gammix-s11-pro-256gb-m-2-agammixs11p-256gt-c.html?sort=p.price&order=ASC

 

budget is on the low side, 55$

 

i linked three.. can u check n tell me if these have dram or not..

The first 2 seems to be the same

 

Also there is a lot more to a drive than dram, whats your use case?

 

The first one is a pretty budget drive, no dram, and slow ish speeds.

 

For that price, how about this drive?

 

https://mdcomputers.in/samsung-860-evo-250gb-m-2-mz-n6e250bw.html?sort=p.price&order=ASC

 

this is sata, but good brand, and about the same speed in most uses

 

Or get something like a 500gb mx500, the extra space is nice.

[Mahbub]

4 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

The first 2 seems to be the same

 

Also there is a lot more to a drive than dram, whats your use case?

 

The first one is a pretty budget drive, no dram, and slow ish speeds.

 

For that price, how about this drive?

 

https://mdcomputers.in/samsung-860-evo-250gb-m-2-mz-n6e250bw.html?sort=p.price&order=ASC

 

this is sata, but good brand, and about the same speed in most uses

 

Or get something like a 500gb mx500, the extra space is nice.

my use case is only windows 10 installation.. boot drive.. and okk sot first one i wont get,, hw abt the second two?also the samsung one is sata. the issue is if i buy sata it eill disable my sata ports on my mobo.. and i am using all mobo sata ports so i have to go with nvme..

[Mahbub]

10 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Adata's fallure rate is higher than average, and you shouldnt buy NVMe at low budgets. They just arent faster in the real world than the better bunch of SATA SSDs

so like it seems i should drop the idea of m.2? i have a samsung 850 evo sata as boot drive.. was thinking to change it to game storage and use a cheap nvme as boot drive

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, Mahbub said:

my use case is only windows 10 installation.. boot drive.. and okk sot first one i wont get,, hw abt the second two?also the samsung one is sata. the issue is if i buy sata it eill disable my sata ports on my mobo.. and i am using all mobo sata ports so i have to go with nvme..

what motherbord do you have? Normally they only disable one or two other ports.

 

What is the full build?

 

Can you use a 2.5 in sata drive?

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, Mahbub said:

so like it seems i should drop the idea of m.2? i have a samsung 850 evo sata as boot drive.. was thinking to change it to game storage and use a cheap nvme as boot drive

Id probably just add anouther game drive, and keep your current boot drive. there won't be much of a performance improvement.

[Mahbub]

2 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

what motherbord do you have? Normally they only disable one or two other ports.

 

What is the full build?

 

Can you use a 2.5 in sata drive?

 

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Id probably just add anouther game drive, and keep your current boot drive. there won't be much of a performance improvement.

my mobo is z370m d3h gigabyte.. the issue is. i have total 6 sata ports 4 on top 2 below gpu.. i have two 250gb samsung 850 evo.. one 1 tb wd blue, one 2 tb wd blue and one 1tb wd black .. so 5 of my sata ports r being used, now one of the sata ports is pretty much covered by my 3 slot gtx 1080 amp extreme. after checking the mobo manual.. i found if i put a sara m.2 it will disable one sata port from top... which i cant allow to happen as i cant use the other one as thats coverd by gpu.. now i transferred a game from wd black to one 850 evo.. lod times much better now.. so thought to make both the sata ssds as game drives n use a nvme as boot drive.. so that the whole story.

[Electronics Wizardy]

3 minutes ago, Mahbub said:

 

my mobo is z370m d3h gigabyte.. the issue is. i have total 6 sata ports 4 on top 2 below gpu.. i have two 250gb samsung 850 evo.. one 1 tb wd blue, one 2 tb wd blue and one 1tb wd black .. so 5 of my sata ports r being used, now one of the sata ports is pretty much covered by my 3 slot gtx 1080 amp extreme. after checking the mobo manual.. i found if i put a sara m.2 it will disable one sata port from top... which i cant allow to happen as i cant use the other one as thats coverd by gpu.. now i transferred a game from wd black to one 850 evo.. lod times much better now.. so thought to make both the sata ssds as game drives n use a nvme as boot drive.. so that the whole story.

COuld you replacae one of the smaller saata drive with a bigger one? Like get a 1tb sata ssd to replace a 250gb?

 

but if you want a boot nvme, it doesn't really matter, the cheap s5 will be plenty fast for a boot drive, you don't seem to need much io for your boot drive here.

[Mahbub]

11 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

what motherbord do you have? Normally they only disable one or two other ports.

 

What is the full build?

 

Can you use a 2.5 in sata drive?

Thanks to the 3 slot card. One sata port is gone.. or else I would have bought a sata ssd like 500 gb n put it..

[Electronics Wizardy]

5 minutes ago, Mahbub said:

 

my mobo is z370m d3h gigabyte.. the issue is. i have total 6 sata ports 4 on top 2 below gpu.. i have two 250gb samsung 850 evo.. one 1 tb wd blue, one 2 tb wd blue and one 1tb wd black .. so 5 of my sata ports r being used, now one of the sata ports is pretty much covered by my 3 slot gtx 1080 amp extreme. after checking the mobo manual.. i found if i put a sara m.2 it will disable one sata port from top... which i cant allow to happen as i cant use the other one as thats coverd by gpu.. now i transferred a game from wd black to one 850 evo.. lod times much better now.. so thought to make both the sata ssds as game drives n use a nvme as boot drive.. so that the whole story.

also you can get angled sata cables that should fit under your gpu.

[Mahbub]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

also you can get angled sata cables that should fit under your gpu.

Thought of that too.. but the top sata port is literally being sandwiched..  nothing can get in there unless it's a two slot card .

 

Also i made a mistake.. i actually have a crucial 480gb.and a samsung 250 gb.. i replaced the other 250 to my laptop and bought in the laptop 480 to the pc...as for the replacing the samsung 250 which is my boot drive with a 1tb .. yes. But samsung 1tb evo is expensive

[Jurrunio]

25 minutes ago, Mahbub said:

so like it seems i should drop the idea of m.2? i have a samsung 850 evo sata as boot drive.. was thinking to change it to game storage and use a cheap nvme as boot drive

M.2 saves cable management effort, that's it. As boot drive SATA and NVMe feel exactly the same.

[Mahbub]

3 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

M.2 saves cable management effort, that's it. As boot drive SATA and NVMe feel exactly the same.

yes and i wanna make the 250gb sata ssd as a gaming drive... and as u have seen from previous comments i cant put a sata ssd or use another sata ssd,, all usable sata ports used up.. and if i put a sata m.2 it will disable one of my hdds,, so now my only option is a cheap 240gb nvme as a boot drive if i wanna convert the 250 gb sata to game drive.. btw u said adata has high failure rates..how is this one? 

https://mdcomputers.in/galax-gamer-240gb-m.2-bina1m4t6bg28bnlbyxwxn.html?sort=p.price&order=ASC this is cheaper than the adata one.. but is galax good? also this one has pcie 3.0*2 channel instead of pcie 3.0*4 channel in the adata one, what does that mean? will this galax one be slower?

 

[Jurrunio]

28 minutes ago, Mahbub said:

yes and i wanna make the 250gb sata ssd as a gaming drive... and as u have seen from previous comments i cant put a sata ssd or use another sata ssd,, all usable sata ports used up.. and if i put a sata m.2 it will disable one of my hdds,, so now my only option is a cheap 240gb nvme as a boot drive if i wanna convert the 250 gb sata to game drive.. btw u said adata has high failure rates..how is this one? 

https://mdcomputers.in/galax-gamer-240gb-m.2-bina1m4t6bg28bnlbyxwxn.html?sort=p.price&order=ASC this is cheaper than the adata one.. but is galax good? also this one has pcie 3.0*2 channel instead of pcie 3.0*4 channel in the adata one, what does that mean? will this galax one be slower?

 

Yes the galax drive will be slower

 

and tbh if you're such a storage hog, save up for a bigger drive altogether. Even HDD, to put all the stuff that doesnt care about speed

[Mahbub]

15 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Yes the galax drive will be slower

 

and tbh if you're such a storage hog, save up for a bigger drive altogether. Even HDD, to put all the stuff that doesnt care about speed

Yes i have enough hdd.. just need more ssd space for ganes i regularly play. And thanks for helping me out